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Supreme Court: UP Gangsters Act ‘stillborn’ for prescribing punishment without creating an offence
In a strongly worded judgment, the Court holds that the 1986 law prescribes punishment without creating a distinct offence and criticises the gang-chart mechanism, but stops short of deciding whether the legislation itself passes constitutional muster
Gyanvapi case: Petitioner moves caveat before Allahabad High Court
Rekha Pathak, one of the four Hindu women petitioners in the Shringar Gauri case has asked for the right to oppose application by mosque committee
The Challenge to Places of Worship Special Provisions Act, 1991 is Misconceived
Response to Ashwani Kumar Upadhyay’s petition before the Supreme Court
Gyanvapi: Mosque Panel May Move HC, Hindu Plaintiffs Term Verdict as ‘Foundation Stone’ of Temple
Advocate Akhlaque Ahmad, representing the mosque committee, told reporters that he and his team would review the 2,400-page judgment and then make a decision on future course of action.
Re-evaluate premature release policy for convicts serving life terms: SC to UP gov’t
Court ordered the UP government to consider releasing qualified life offenders covered under its 2018 policy within four months in an objective and transparent manner, with priority to elderly and ill inmates
Marital Rape: Supreme Court to hear batch of petitions on September 16
Bench to tag together all similar petitions against the split verdict of Delhi High Court bench on the marital rape exception for the next hearing
SC seeks Centre’s response to petitions challenging CAA
States of Assam and Tripura to file separate responses; matter to be heard on October 31
Gyanvapi case: Court dismisses mosque committee’s plea challenging maintainability of suit
Court finds suit by Hindu petitioners is not barred by the Places of Worship Act
Gyanvapi case: Judgment on suit maintainability expected today
Heavy police deployment to maintain law and order
Server and mobile phones of top leadership cloned, data taken: Oxfam India on IT raids
Offices of Oxfam India, CPR and IPSMF had been raided on September 7 in connection with alleged illegal funding of political parties
SC to hear pleas challenging the Place of Worship Act on October 11
Centre to file response in two weeks; Intervention Application of the Royal Family of Kashi, Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind and others allowed
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